Twitter didn't exist last time we had a sandbox?

or maybe just no one cared

anyway this showed up as a promoted tweet just now:

http://i44.tinypic.com/15cbyuv.jpg

i would prefer netflix pop-ups to this tripe tbh

its u who loses

promoted tweets will be the death of twitter if they proliferate

is there really no other way to monetise the internet except fucking adverts? people hate adverts, i have no idea why companies don't realise this...

Companies love money.

(typos fixed just then = mony, monet)

With adblock I don't see promoted tweets, just perplexing gaps of white space every so often.

how does adblock know that a promoted tweet is an ad? that's kind of clever of it.

what is adblock?

i think he was in the beastie boys

Advertising only works so far (partly due to shite like AdBlock), but there are only so many ways to make money, other than getting people to pay for no adverts (IE the Spotify 'business plan'), or just paying for the service. What sort of features would make you pay for Twitter, Alex? I'm genuinely curious - I don't use it for much, so I don't know what bits chafe.

disclaimer: Spotify gets £10 of my cash every month, but I get to walk around listening to any song I want, even offline, so I figure that's a fair price for the future.

lex you are on camino, right? if so http://caminobrowser.org/documentation/annoyances/#web_ads

What sort of features would make you pay for Twitter, Alex?

no failwhale or "over capacity" nonsense
no adverts OBVIOUSLY
range of options re: how you want to view it (ie no forcing you into "new twitter" nonsense, letting you choose whether you want activity/RT tabs etc)

that's just for starters

http://twitter.com/#!/FrankCrossIBC
this guy just hit me up, interesting

Character is 65% genetic in my humble opinion.

Todd

we have had a sandbox all along.

So Mr. Latman just paid to have his noncommercial tweet promoted across the twitterverse (or a certain fraction thereof)?

With adblock I don't see promoted tweets, just perplexing gaps of white space every so often.

― Nicole, Wednesday, November 30, 2011 6:57 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Permalink

i was wondering wtf was up w/those white gaps!

soooo many spammers on twitter these days

Yeah, pretty much any time I use a proper now, I get some kind of proper noun-specific spam.

The worst was when I got my new ip4d and the spammers would glom on to that and try to sell me more ip4ds

isn't the moral of that don't tweet about how you just got an ipad, or can they just tell anyway?

http://twitter.com/#!/deactivated001

Nice trick of making you install the app to get the redesigned website.

http://i.imgur.com/5EMzZ.png

idk if those people are all these people but that the mountain goats guy tweet is really excellent

who are all-a-yall, btw, on twitter; i think i never really knew there was out of school ilx action for a long time + it is still a small thrill to find people exist not just on here. i just followed sand boxer dayo, felt good about it.

john and wolfpuppys lil twitter love affair is sickening, feel like unfollowing them both

lol I am in that screenshot but I have no idea who Sandbox "james" is :)

btw the most important ilx tweeter of all is not listed, that is me

idg twitter if you're not famous

i am famous to my family

Schlump do you have a twitter? I literally check it like once every 2 weeks but I would read yours, I think!

idg Twitter if you *are* famous.

twitter is amazing twitter is the best i follow like 800 people

you're OK on twitter, I guess

tbh when I do check it I skim yrs and wolf puppy and that's normally it

aw

By the time I do look there are like 3 million updates! It's overwhelming.

No from you two but just in general. That's why I only really check out a select few.

you dont have to read everything in yr feed, just check in now and then, see whats going on you know

Yeah. Mostly I just forget about it. Maybe I'll try to do so more often. idk.

I was looking for info following an episode of "Davina's Million Pound Drop", I'd forgot one of the questions that had caused two couples to get eliminated in round one. I found Davina's personal twitter acc.

So, a short summary of contributors (other than herself):
3 = "Wow what a show U are great"
1 = "Are you still in the pay of the NHS? and how much are you coining in promoting home births even though they are dangerous but 'saving' the NHS money?
2 = "You are the most irritating TV personality ever"
2 = "You hurt the wasp?"
1 = "Wow great upskirt pic again!"

(ref the NHS one, she ended up going into great detail about how much extra services she had to pay for, also that somebody seems to be using her name without authority for their home-birth services, etc. and that she was going to pursue the matter the next day. Which impressed the original tweeter not at all)

And that seemed to be a particularly 'nice' set of comments.

Schlump do you have a twitter? I literally check it like once every 2 weeks but I would read yours, I think!

― ᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ (~curious orange~), Friday, 9 December 2011 14:26 (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

it is mainly film-junk - like looking at it now the most recent 20 things on there are super-boring - & some bragging about how i used some real good scissors recently but yeah, @ f1lmclubbr1stol, de-weatherproofed for googlin &c. you have one you don't post to, or? I am kinda 'into it' as a 'thing', probably more depressing is that I find myself actually reading it all, like blankly skimming over twelve hours of people's tweets in the morning.

this is my fav thing anyone ever posted to twitter i think, like i feel like it is exactly the scale & intimacy of what you should be able to do w/short sentence-long posts

i can't really tell how much of a "thing" rare basement is on twitter bc it isn't really a joke/premise account, but she is awes & you should read her if you don't, e.

OK why can't I figure out how to ungoogle you. I'm an idiot this morning. I do. I will follow you and you will see mine! Every couple months I'm like, "Yeah, let's do this!" and post like 5 things before I get bored. I mostly retweet funny people.

and I have followed R_B, thanks!

lol i was half heartedly wondering why some english film club was following me, apologies for the delayed follow back

Oh, got it now. Thanks, CC! ha. Following you schlump.

ha ha swap the '1's for 'i's, the words were film & bristol
rb is rad. i think you are my 50% of my friends on my dormant google-lol-+ account; twitter is maybe slightly more involving if you aren't doing fb or w/e at the same time as well.

xp lol i have no idea who you are, DN name-wise?, but i don't think you need to apologise. i am actually psyched when seemingly obscure accounts follow me, like the internet is facilitating a friendship between some shoegaze duo in virginia & my english film exercise

twitter is maybe slightly more involving if you aren't doing fb or w/e at the same time as well.

*-for me anyway, a lot of stuff is probably best inflicted on friends

btw I had no idea you were in England. How did I not realize that? Weird.

ha yeah i love that too xp

i think you are my 50% of my friends on my dormant google-lol-+ account

me? really? someone added me on that last night. Are ppl still doing that? I have literally not checked it for months.

i occasionally get emails notifying me ive been added to peoples google+ and ive never once looked at that website

i just have real good internet reception, i come through crystal clear
(i was in america for awhile, & have gross affected americanizmz, which might throw off the scent kinda)

& yeah, it is you & an ex- of mine, i think you maybe sent me my invite idk? & i have done literally nothing with it other than convene you & the other person in a solemn, quiet trio. i was maybe gonna use a flamboyantly pseudonymous fb account to encircle a bunch of stray/distant/internet people sometime so I will shout you if i do & then post the things that don't-quite-make-the-twitter-grade there

I was in Bristol once for a wedding. I really liked it. Skins makes it seem all kinds of wild. lol. Oh, I was actually there twice. The second time I literally had the worst pizza of my entire life. It was wretched.

pretty reasonable approximation of its range, pretty/bad pizza. there might be a weird underbelly that skins accurately depicts but idk, going "out" here is not really an appealing thing for me.

I am in that screenshot too, now I feel like a famous ilxor. My twitter not hard to figure out btw.

I am not a "high value" twitter user though

idk i feel like you're speaking for the internet everyman in the tweet pictured

should be really hard to find out who i am in that screenshot

I had breaded fish with SO MANY LITTLE BONES in it in Bristol. What the hell, England? I still love you, but..

you should have asked for it w/no bones, you prob got breaded fish w/extra bones

I'm Canadian, I (a) didn't expect so many little bones (except in Tragically Hip songs) and (b) ask for nothing ever!

Lex?

that's me!! you are E yes? I still haven't got the hang of these nicknames.

Yeah, exactly. I didn't realize that was you until literally just now. You know what else is cool about Bristol? My best friend's little sister and her girlfriend went to trapeze school there!

please e, i insist you googleproof my place of work if you're going to mention it on here, i can't just have anybody knowing that the pr1nc1p4l of tr4p3z3 sch00l is a sandboxer

who is filmclubbristol, btw?

trapezeclubbristol is schlump

oh, duh

ty + lol, chucklebutt

i am all discombobbed, what is this place and why is there so much sand

anyway i am on this thing as elmo_argonaut, fwiw

nsfw

haha sorry for the surprising peen links

I was going to say "It's full of cocks!" but then I thought that was your Tumblr?

ha no they were good posts, it was a v strong set of images, it just wasn't the tapestry of well-coordinated plaids & wools i had come to so anticipate

haha i had to unfollow elmo un tumblr, beautiful pix but i just cant handle that much cock in my feed, not that i ever look at tumblr anymore so w/e

I check Tumblr less often than I do Twitter and when I do it's always a little jarring. SO MUCH PEEN. There are some great images though, that's true.

haha thanks i guess! the necktie blog is on hold atm, i am pretty stressed at work (retail!) which kinda precludes caring about how i look for the entire month of december

tho maybe i should work on some crossover stuff? bowtie on a cock dot tumblr dot com

i would be into a photo record of sweatpants-mode elmo, just to round off the picture of what you wear in general, but i understand if the whole cataloguing outfits & posting updates thing is a lil much

http://i.imgur.com/XWJw8.png

hahaha

just got the official twitter account to crash on iOS 4.2.1 aw yeah

official twitter app, rather

did twitter just blow up in the last couple years? my account turned 5 the other day /braggin

That's some nice bragging! I remember it starting in 2007, and the killer app, back crucially when your twitters* would be texted to your phone, was that there were twitter feeds for each of the London Underground subway lines, and you could get near-real-time updates if any of them were delayed, to plan your journey. It sort of took off a bit, then hovered around forever, and I only really remember it coming back in 2009, with Ashton Kutcher / Stephen Fry, when the real killer app of "Do you want to know what your favourite celebrities really think?" appeared.

*as was the style back then...

why the fuck are SA joke acounts changing their characters

RIP thebibandit

why the fuck are SA joke acounts changing their characters

there was probably a namechange thread

what??? i could handle the sputtering-out of BARTSIMSON_REAL but this one is different

max did some reporting on scott baios untimely diaper death http://gawker.com/5868180/how-a-twitter-cabal-of-diaper+obsessed-madmen-killed-scott-baio

lmao

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lunrn6vgNJ1r0fubko1_500.png

RIP thebibandit

― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Wednesday, December 14, 2011 9:41 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Permalink

where did this dude go need to know thx

ok http://twitter.com/#!/UtilityLimb hat tip to ilx sandbox usr max max

PRINCE INVESTS IN TWITTER

^Disapointed that it wasn't the musician.

I was, too

a friend of my dads has been non stop tweeting at me the last couple days, he is ruining my personal brand lmbo

oh and btw our v own polyphonic unfollowed me, dont pretend like i dont use an app to track these things bro

j/k i totally understand bro sometimes im p intense w/the tweets

hahahaha

ooooh that musta stung dude

so madd rite noe

oh and btw our v own polyphonic unfollowed me, dont pretend like i dont use an app to track these things bro

You are too real for me!

*bows respectfully*

feeling like i should start a public list w/in my followers titled "people who do not fucking liveblog the television all the time because that shit is beyond boring and makes me hate you" but would that be too pass-agg?

it's still there, mocking me with its flatness #livetweetingTV

http://twitter.com/#!/umairh/status/148945863484518400

http://twitter.com/#!/umairh/status/148224696528277504

wish i could access real ilx to read about social media assholes & find out what is up with that guy

is he a cyborg y/n

So uh my account got mysteriously suspended about a week ago (and the last tweet was something I sent, so I don't think it's a hacking issue) and I've already tried appealing it a couple of times via email - anything else I can do?

congratulations, r0dney

http://i.imgur.com/Zq3Ow.png

It's just a childish unfunny politically incorrect joke (which he has for money), like on Top Gear.